Like the two lakes, Ganlong is also closely connected to Sichuan and Shu.

However, unlike the two lakes, the terrain of a large area connected to Ganlong and Sichuan and Shu is not as complex and difficult to navigate as in the west, and some are open areas with a flat river, which is more suitable for a large army assault.

Only after entering the boundary of Langzhou and cutting off the road like an axe by the steep mountains where Jiameng Pass is located, this wilderness plain, which is more conducive to the rapid advance of tens of thousands of troops, came to an abrupt end, thus becoming the throat of Sichuan and Shu to resist the invasion of Ganlong.

However, can the 80,000 people who have been planning for many years and are gathering momentum really be able to stop the 80,000 people who have been planning for many years?

At least for Li Wannian, who is now personally leading the troops, this danger is not as insurmountable as imagined.

It took him almost a decade to get to this day.

In fact, ten years ago, he originally thought that the entire Sichuan and Shu, the country of abundance, was completely within reach.

After all, at that time, the world was in turmoil, the Central Plains was turbulent, the Dayue Imperial Court had already existed in name only, and the more important Central Plains was a multi-party force that rose up at the same time, restraining each other and competing for power, and who would pay attention to the rather remote southwest Sichuan and Shu land?

Only he, Li Wannian, has a vision and pattern that others do not have, coupled with the identity of the descendant of the Li family from Chang'an, he has long known the weight of the country of Sichuan and Shu Tianfu.

At the turn of the Qin and Han dynasties, Liu Bang, the ancestor of the Han Dynasty, made his fortune in this place, so that he had the rich capital to compete with the overlord Xiang Yu step by step, and finally established the Liu Han Dynasty of Guozuo for more than 400 years.

After the new mang usurped the Han Dynasty, there was the Guangwu Emperor Liu Xiu who left the famous words of Long Wangshu here, continuing the world of the Liu family in the Later Han Dynasty.

Not to mention that Liu Bei at the end of the Han Dynasty directly established the Ji Han regime in Sichuan and Shu, thus standing with Cao Wei and Sun Wu and continuing Liu Han's last national ancestry.

Oh yes, and their old Li family, after the Anshi Rebellion, Li Longji also fled from Chang'an to Sichuan and Shu, and was able to survive......

It can be said that when the Central Plains is turbulent and the world is in turmoil, Sichuan and Shu will become a rear foothold that wants to make a difference and wants to compete for the world.

And after returning to Chang'an, Li Wannian, who has a vision and ambition far beyond his peers, will naturally pay attention to this area. What's more, the Sichuan and Shu of the world were also in turmoil, and there were many contradictions between the Han and the barbarians, and Xiao Changyong, the Marquis of Dingxi, who was sealed by the Dayue Imperial Court, was just a person who did nothing.

The Tang Gate, which occupies Yizhou and befriends barbarians of all ethnic groups, may be the biggest obstacle for him to take Sichuan and Shu.

For this reason, Li Wannian made full preparations in all aspects, and in addition to raising troops to annex the entire Ganlong, thinking that it was a springboard for the destruction of Shu, he also recruited people from all walks of life in the rivers and lakes, promising huge profits, just to use them to deal with the people in the Tang Sect who were better at using the methods of the rivers and lakes.

But as a result, after a few years of hard work, when everything was ready, the situation in Sichuan and Shu also changed dramatically - read the book

Sun Ning, the mediocre and incompetent monarch who caused chaos in the world, actually ran to Sichuan and Shu, and showed a strong ability and appeal that was enough to shock the people of the world. In just one year, he unified the entire Sichuan and Shu under his command.

The tribes of the barbarians were either destroyed or bowed down to him.

The Tang Gate, which was regarded as the biggest obstacle by Li Wannian, was directly uprooted by Sun Ning and killed all over the house!

All these changes came so fast that Li Wannian was a little caught off guard.

When he really wanted to use troops against Sichuan Shu, he found that the original civil strife and the fragmented Sichuan and Shu had already become an iron plate. Moreover, not only a single Sichuan and Shu, but also southern Yunnan and Qianzhou, which also belong to the southwest, have formed an alliance with this, and their self-protection power has more than doubled.

After that, the resurgence of the Dayue Imperial Court was like a smooth sailing ship, riding the wind and waves all the way, invincible.

Jiangnan, Lianghu, Lianghuai, and even Liangzhou...... These places, which had once been fought separately, were actually taken by the imperial court one by one, and only the tripartite forces of their own Pingtian Army were still struggling to support them. And in the end, even Kaifeng's Qin Yude ended miserably, and he had to rely on his own troops to rescue before he could save the remnants.

That's perhaps

It's the consequence that he didn't take down Sichuan Shu in time. Otherwise, all these victories may well be their own!

Li Wannian told himself this many times, and at the same time, he was even more eager to take Sichuan and Shu.

The so-called Delong Wangshu of the ancients is a matter of course in his opinion.

But the situation in the world at that time, as well as the reason in his heart, and the continuous persuasion of Shenbo, who was finally taken back to Chang'an, made Li Wannian not make the most risky decision, and really launched an offensive against Sichuan and Shu when the Dayue court had no worries.

And so it was for many more years.

It was not until this year that when the Vietnamese army was no longer satisfied with only conquering Kaifeng, but intended to storm and seize Luoyang, Li Wannian was finally convinced that his opportunity to seize Sichuan and Shu had finally arrived.

The importance of Luoyang is self-evident, after all, it is the former capital of Dayue, and it naturally has indescribable symbolic significance for the entire Dayue court.

On the contrary, Luoyang is easy to defend and difficult to attack. With the fortification of Luoyang, Xingyang, Tiger Prison and other cities, and the abundance of food in the city, it is completely a dream for the Vietnamese army to easily capture it with a small number of soldiers and horses.

Therefore, this battle is destined to be a protracted war of attrition, which will take years.

Judging from the family foundation accumulated by the Dayue Imperial Court over the years, this battle is bound to make them completely empty the rear, so that Sichuan and Shu fall into emptiness.

In order to achieve this strategic goal, Li Wannian even feigned to send troops to attract more Vietnamese troops to focus on the war in the Central Plains.

In fact, as early as the beginning of this year, he began to continuously transport soldiers, horses and military rations to Ganzhou, preparing for the next surprise attack on Sichuan and Shu.

It's just that in the end, it was one step short, and the surprise attack didn't come true after all.

Because the Dayue Imperial Court actually sent secret spies to monitor the movements of Guan Long's troops and horses, and transmitted the news to Langzhou at the last moment when the troops were about to be dispatched, so that the eastern Sichuan area was ready for defense, and the original surprise attack became a frontal attack today.

Now, just by looking at the banners and the soldiers and horses waiting for battle, you can know that they are well prepared.

But do you think that this will be foolproof and will be able to guard the east gate of Sichuan and Shu?

Li Wannian looked at the dangerous hurdle a few miles ahead, and a sneer appeared on his face - in order to seize Sichuan and Shu, he didn't just spend a year preparing from last year to now, but ten years!

Ten years is enough for him to make more preparations, so that the mere Xiongguan has become a smooth road!